Famously Said Random quote

Quotes about philosophy

250 quotes from 124 people

Most readBy personPage 11 of 17

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Theology
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Theology
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Baltimore Evening Sun (4 April 1927)
- Clever Jabs
- Theology
Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.
Alan Mooreborn 1953What Is Reality?
We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.
Alan Mooreborn 1953Watchmen (1986–1987)
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley1890–1957“Safe and Sane” in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92
- Theology
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue, § 4, tr. Thomas CommonIn context
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Part I, Chapter 4
- Wisdom
Christianity is Platonism for the “people”.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), PreludeIn context
- Christianity
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man?
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue, § 3, tr. Thomas CommonIn context
- Motivation & Goals
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Chapter I, aphorism 6, tr. Walter Kaufmann
All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward — this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his “soul.”
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), Essay 2, Section 16
Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
George Orwell1903–1950“Can Socialists Be Happy?”, Tribune (20 December 1943). Published under the name ‘John Freeman’.
The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 174
- Clever Jabs